Fanny Crosby, who became blind at the age of 6 weeks due to medical malpractice, is famously known for the more than 8,000 hymns she wrote during her lifetime, including Blessed Assurance, Rescue the Perishing, Pass Me Not O Gentle Savior, and Saved by Grace.
Her faith in a good and sovereign God is well documented, even over a doctor who caused her blindness:
But I have not, for a moment, in more than eighty-five years, felt a spark of resentment against him; for I have always believed that the good Lord, in His infinite mercy, by this means consecrated me to the work that I am still permitted to do. When I remember how I have been blessed, how can I repine?
She and her husband had one child, Francis, who died as a baby. One biographer said the death of that child was the inspiration for the hymn, Safe in the Arms of Jesus. Another documents a different reason. Regardless, it is a beautiful testimony that Jesus is trustworthy in the midst of great suffering. I hear echoes of Paul’s ‘light momentary affliction‘ in Fanny Crosby’s ‘only a few more trials, only a few more tears!’
- Safe in the arms of Jesus,
Safe on His gentle breast;
There by His love o’ershaded,
Sweetly my soul shall rest.
Hark! ’tis the voice of angels
Borne in a song to me,
Over the fields of glory,
Over the jasper sea.- Refrain:
Safe in the arms of Jesus,
Safe on His gentle breast;
There by His love o’ershaded,
Sweetly my soul shall rest.
- Refrain:
- Safe in the arms of Jesus,
Safe from corroding care,
Safe from the world’s temptations;
Sin cannot harm me there.
Free from the blight of sorrow,
Free from my doubts and fears;
Only a few more trials,
Only a few more tears! - Jesus, my heart’s dear Refuge,
Jesus has died for me;
Firm on the Rock of Ages
Ever my trust shall be.
Here let me wait with patience,
Wait till the night is o’er;
Wait till I see the morning
Break on the golden shore.
The Works of God 
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